Monday, November 26, 2012

SeeMyScience: Explaining Our Published Papers

"You do what now?"

As a scientist, the most frequent comment I get when I tell
people what I do is some variation of “I have no idea what that means, but it
sounds important”. This was perfectly illustrated recently, in response to a
link I posted on Facebook about a paper we published
(Pictured Left).

Let’s be honest, many scientists suck at talking about their
work in a way that people who are not scientists can understand. Part of this
is the way we are trained to write: technical papers for science journal
publication. However, as I said in a recent blog post, we need to do better. We
need to talk about our science in a way everyone can understand. And it’s about
time I put my money where my mouth is.

In the coming weeks, I will be posting a series that looks
at the paper our lab group recently published about our work developing a treatment
for Cancer Cachexia. In this series, I will be combing through the article, explaining what we do, why we do it, what we learn from the
results, and how we decide what to do in the future.

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